Fool's Gold Ch. 04

A great lesson about how the people we choose as our influencers, can actually steal way from us the control of our lives.

If one does marry the person who is our best friend for life, and then stick to that, only trouble and sorrow can follow.

Great series

The Hoary Cleric

Good insights into people can actually think. God picture of a believable (not likable or admirable) person. I wouldn't take her back, though, even granting her sincere repentance and even if one loved her, as her weaknesses here make it clear that in the future, she could go wrong in all sorts of ways. How will this person react to the hard problems that come with growing old, physical and mental losses, approaching death? Not well, I think.

Well written. But wow Anne had serious mental issues. So much insecurity, listening to stupid bitter women at the gym, no trust for years, wating away at her, debased herself with Alan, wracked with guilt but unable to see the depth of her own hypocrisy, too ashamed but no confession or request for counseling, but worse the fake story for why a divorce knowing Claire will tell him eventually (though why so many months, what a bitch), then when demanding a divorce she listens to Alan and others and she tries to rake him over the coals. Each thing looked at individually seems realistic though a terrible error, but together it paints the picture of an insecure, low self-esteem, selfish bitch who makes terrible errors that drive her to shame and guilt but too hesitant or reluctant to seek an actual solution or come clean. After the second time with Alan, her shame is so strong it drives her to kill her marriage by virtue of more horrible decisions made based on misinterpretation and miscommunication. She created this fictitious story in her head of a heartless husband who no longer loves, routinely cheats on her and is going through the motions, and she becomes that heartless bitch! Somehow even though she knew what was going on from her side, she just reacted to shit and blew things out of proportion and ended up pursuing a tawdry sexual affair with dickweed Alan. Doesn't even sound like the sex was that great, she just needed a "safe harbor" of desire in the storm she created in her mind about their marriage turning it into a self fulfilling prophecy of doom. And then whe she realized she fucked up, it turned to acrimony and hate. What a mess. Sure maybe after four plus years they can be co-parents and courteous, maybe even friends, but wtf? they RAAC. This reminds me of House of Cards by Ohio. Well written, emotionally gripping but not remotely reconcilable. She needed therapy before her descent into the last few months of their marriage. She also could have hired a PI to track her husband or show up unannounced. It would have communicated to him her fear about Heather. Instead her insecurities drive her off a cliff. The first time with dickweed should have brought her have it out with her husband. She could have said she was pissed at his call and fucked Alan to get back at his hypocrisy (in her own paranoid mind) about Heather. Again hire a PI!

Wish asswipe alan got major beatdown wife said alan was not totally to blame.yes he was the piece ofshit went after a married woman

When I read the comments that the anonymous trolls have written, I finally realize why our country is disintegrating. You can’t have a civilization with people whose thoughts constantly reek of unreasoning hatred.

The one nugget of satisfaction I have reading them is that I know exactly who they hate the most: themselves. And for good reason. Barely literate, constantly apoplectic with rage, spittle flying onto the screen as they scream and rant and pound their fists on the desk. I guess if I were that much of a complete loser in life, and I didn’t have the tools to improve myself, I would be angry too.

But I wouldn’t be mad at the author of a story. I’d be mad at my parents, and myself.